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What's happening to rural doctors and health facilities?
(University of Missouri, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1959)
Latino Immigration and Meatpacking in the Rural Midwest : An Inventory of Community Impacts and Responses
(Cambio Center, 2002)
This paper discusses Latino immigration to the rural Midwest as one micro effect of the macro process of economic globalization. Impacts of Latino immigrants moving into rural communities, and what communities have done in response to immigration...
Rural development literature 1976-1977 : an updated annotated bibliography
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division., 1978)
Experiences influencing physician rural practice and retention : a phenomenological study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
A physician maldistribution exists when comparing rural with urban areas. It is necessary to ensure rural citizens have available, accessible, and acceptable quality medical care to remedy health disparities resulting from the lack of physicians...
Supply of physicians in rural Missouri
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1955)
Insights for rural health care provider retention : a quantitative survey analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Due to rural health disparities and an uneven distribution of health providers across the rural urban continuum, retaining the existing rural health care provider workforce may be an important strategy to maintain existing rural health care...
Rural and urban breast cancer patients: differential relationships between coping responses and psychological adjustment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
and survivors. Some of the findings derived from the studies of urban women may generalize to their rural counterparts; yet rural breast cancer patients are likely to have distinct experiences that influence their physical and psychological well...
Rural agglomeration : how does the distribution of people across rural America affect entrepreneurship?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
from low transportation costs, access to large labor and consumer markets, and knowledge spillovers. In this context, rural areas are largely considered to be the sparsely populated 'other' however, our experiences suggest that population distribution...
Family health practices among open-country people in a south Missouri county
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1959)
Globalization and Latino labor: Labor advocates' accounts of meatpacking in rural Missouri
(Cambio Center, 2002)
This paper presents labor advocates' accounts of the common problems faced by Latino/a workers employed in the Missouri meatpacking industry and the potential strategies they identify for addressing them. Information is ...
Illness in the farm population of two homogeneous areas of Missouri : its relation to social and economic factors and its susceptibility to small-sample study
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1952)
Extent of illness and use of health services in a south Missouri county
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1958)
“Now there's a good woman”: how rural life course events shape the response to cognitive decline in older women
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-22)
Aims: This dissertation aimed to: (1) analyze the life-course experiences of rural, older women and the impact of those experiences on their values, health-illness behaviors and decision-making, particularly surrounding cognitive decline; (2...
The rural population resources of Missouri
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1948)
An investigation of Jim Collins's Good to Great and applications for rural school districts and their leaders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The difference between Level 5 Leaders (Collins, 2001) of rural school districts and other effective/competent leaders of rural school districts were examined in this study. The case study compared Level 5 Superintendents and other effective...
The impact of Wal-Mart on the rural retail wage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This study uses panel data to test the impact of Wal-Mart on the rural retail wage. There are observations from 2,986 counties in the contiguous United States from 1990-2005. Previous studies have reported mixed findings of the impact of Wal...
Extent of illness and use of health services in a northwest Missouri county
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1959 [i.e.)
Latinos in Southwest Missouri : Capturing the American Dream through Farming
(Cambio Center, 2006)
Even as farm ownership is declining in the US as a whole, an increasing number of Latinos are entering the farming business. In fact, Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group of farm owner/operators in Missouri and in ...
Gaze on belonging : investigating rural preservice teachers' experiences at a flagship university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This qualitative study examined rural undergraduate students' process of developing a sense of belonging in a teacher preparation program at a large Midwestern public university. Eleven undergraduates, each having completed at least one semester...
Understanding how violence impacts rural mexico: a cross sectional analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Violence has negative impacts on the wellbeing of civilians, but it specifically has a stronger impact on the rural poor. In Mexico, the rural poor are often ignored in academic research and in policies that address violence, even though they have...